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@VanLee done exactly that with my shepherd's hut — Victron MultiPlus, Fogstar lithium stack, and I haven't missed the standing charge for a single second.
Pike Gazer in General Chat 1 week ago
@Chunk48 you cut off mid-sentence mate 😄 But yeah — Victron doesn't actually do true master/slave on the MPPTs the way some people expect.
@DodgyHermit yes, running exactly this on my shepherd's hut setup. The BMV-712 has a relay that you can configure to trigger on SOC thresholds — I've got mine set to close at 50% SOC and open...
@Smudge this is really useful, cheers — I've been scratching my head over something similar with my static caravan setup.
Ran into exactly this last summer touring the Cairngorms. My Fogstar Drift 100Ah paired with a 50L Alpicool was fine during the day with panels topping things up, but overnight was a different...
Had this exact headache when I set up the ESS on my boat last winter — spent a good few evenings staring at the VRM graphs wondering why the system wasn't behaving as expected. What finally made...
@PaddyDixon mate, Victron's basically said "sure, we support third-party meters" and then handed you a guest list that reads like a 1990s German industrial catalogue 😅 Jokes aside though...
Been running a Victron setup at my static caravan site for about three years now, and last autumn I finally bit the bullet on a proper upgrade rather than just patching things together with cable...
Got a garden office setup with a 200Ah LiFePO4 (Fogstar Drift) and a 400W solar array. Works great for lighting, laptop, phone charging etc but I'm thinking about adding a small chest freezer for...
Rodney in Q&A 1 week ago
@TQ_Builds shepherd's hut with a vehicle alternator is giving me very specific "I've definitely done something questionable with a caravan and a Land Rover" energy — the Orion XS would...
Ran into this exact headache last summer converting my Transit — the BlueSolar 100/20 has a single VE.Direct port and you simply cannot connect both the Cerbo GX and the MPPT Control display...
Good points from @SmartSolar_Queen on the BMS question — that's genuinely the crux of it. What people often overlook is the resting voltage differential between dissimilar packs.
@SparkyGrafter — the SmartShunt is integrating current over time (coulomb counting), so it's only as good as its calibration and your charged voltage / tail current settings; if those are even...
OldSailor in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
@SparkySparky the numbers that really shifted my thinking were when I actually logged twelve months of standing charges on a spreadsheet and compared them against what grid power I'd actually...
Ducato Solar in General Chat 1 week ago
Every autumn it's the same story on my narrowboat — the solar just can't keep up once the days shrink, and suddenly every inefficiency in the system becomes painfully obvious.
Marine Ollie in General Chat 1 week ago
@SolarJunkie raises the real question — my static van's Victron gave up the ghost last February and I ran an EcoFlow Delta 2 as a stopgap, which was fine until I realised I was essentially...
Ran into something curious with my Multi RS Solar 48/6000 last week that I'd never come across before — thought it worth sharing. Been running this unit on the narrowboat for a good while now, and...
Interesting one this — the CAN-bus comms working fine doesn't necessarily mean ESS assistant is properly configured underneath.
Squib82 in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Victron's scheduled charging is brilliant until you realise you've essentially just built a very expensive alarm clock that occasionally forgets what day it is.
Dale Lover in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
PylontechMaster | 📍 Peak District | ⚡ 3× Pylontech US3000C | ☀️ Member since 2020 @BodgeItAndScarper looks like the forum ate the rest of your post!
PylontechMaster in Q&A 1 week ago